Moeiz blau



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WITNBSSBS N. PETERS, mmumegmprw. vlamingen uc.

VUNITED STATES PATENT Ferca.

MORIZ BLAU, OF YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,553, dated March 9, 1886.

Application tiled November 18, 1885. Serial No. 193,204. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be known that I, MoRrz BLAU, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shirt, of which the following is a full. clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to means for shortening shirt-sleeves upon the arms by the use of buttons and button-holes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the ligure is a perspective view of a shirt made in accordance with my invention.

The body A and the main part ofthe sleeves B of the shirt may be of the usual or of any approved construction. I re-enforce the shirt at the shoulders with the diamond-shaped pieces C, the lower points, c, of which reach down upon the sleeve nearly to the elbow, and the points c are formed into button-hole tabs d. The facing or binding pieces e ofthe sleeveplackets are formed with long narrow strips f, that reach up to or nearly to the buttonhole tabs d. In the strips f are formed, at

= suitable distance apart, the button-holes f',

and between the button-holes f the strips f are stitched to the material of the shirt-sleeves, as shown atf2, so that small loops are formed for the insertion of buttons g into the buttonholes and for holding the buttons in place.

In place of the button-holes f and separate buttons g, I may use buttons permanently attached to the strips f, the object of which is to hold the buttons and strengthen the sleeves, so that they Will not be torn when shortened by buttoning the buttons in the tabs d; but I prefer the button-holes and the separate buttons, as with this arrangement the buttons may be removed in laundering the shirt. By making the stripsf continuous of the facingpieces e, which are attached to the wristbands e', and by extending the points c down lupon the sleeves and attaching the t'absd to them, the strain, when the sleeves are shortened, is removed from the sleeve proper, and all or nearly all taken by the stripsj', so there is no danger of tearing the sleeves.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a shirt, the sleeve B, having the placket-facing e thereof formed with the narrow extension f, reaching up the sleeve and stitched at intervals to the body of the sleeve, and formed with a series of button-holes, one be' tween each connection of the strip with the sleeve, in combination with the reenforcing piece C, stitched to the sleeve and over the shoulder, the lower point of the re-enforcement being provided with the button-hole tab d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A shirt the sleeves B of which are provided with a narrow strip. f, stitched transversely at intervals to the sleeve to form loops open at both edges, and having button-holes f formed in the strips between the transverse rows of stitching, in combination with the button-holetab d, secured near the shoulder-seam, substantially as described.

- MOBIZ BLAU.

Witnesses:

C. F. WEBER, C. SEDGWICK. 

